Welcome back as lawmakers look for a solution to combating the coronavirus they are now looking for ways to include military kron fours washington correspondent morgan right has that story. Rhode island senator jack reed says the nations response to the coronavirus may need to include the us military what capacity they had 2 assists so and to the states and localities reid says in times like this military resources can make a difference bility transfer critical equipment from one place to another quickly by airlift Vice President mike pence as the Coronavirus Task force is considering all options to consider every. Every request from governors for either field hospitals expanding facilities for the army corps of engineer the could retrofit existing buildings at a press briefing monday defense official said there will be challenges to any deployment was are deplorable hospitals. Range in size and range and capabilities and are very much focused and designed to take care of those in combat experts say the military is ready and willing to serve but cant lose sight of their Daily Mission to defend the country duty doesnt have the luxury to just sort of. Pause button on all the overseas threats theyre going to stay while the same time dealing with the pandemic but telling max a man with the center for American Progress says the Defense Department can manage both and its really incumbent on that depends to his Party Leadership to actually the department in support of a National Effort right now National Guard troops are assisting in 5 states and more troops could be called up soon reporting in washington, im morgan right. And have is a very strange sight on the streets of chicago really not too different from. What were seeing today in San Francisco, san jose oakland and really around much of the bay, there is one car the pandemic is turning these big cities into ghost towns as more and more people stay home and fortunately practice socialdistancing usually chicago you as a real big saint pattys day parade dies the Chicago River green. Certainly not the case this year. Well tonight, new york city mayor bill de blasio says residents should be prepared for the possibility of a shelterinplace ordered there within days of the blasio said no decision had been made yet he points city and state officials to make a decision within 48 hours that comes after italy the second hardest hit nation after china and the world coronavirus pandemic has announced new figures that show it has one 3rd of the worlds total deaths now from the new virus. Today italy added more than 3,500 new positive cases bringing its total to now more than 31,000. Meanwhile, the Trump Administration is allowing americans to delay paying their taxes and is hoping to send stimulus checks directly to people us grapples now with the coronavirus panned out. The president is urging americans to stop panic, buying and hoarding things like Hand Sanitizer and toilet paper he also says Grocery Stores have enough food and there will not be a shortage kron 4 Sarah Stinson reports now from South San Francisco where costco has been seeing long lines day after day. People have been flooding. This is South San Francisco costco since before the doors even opened shoppers frantically looking for necessities before they fly off the shelf. Its right. Shoppers arrived at costco before the sun came up on tuesday just hours after the shelterinplace went into effect at midnight the line started out 2 hours before opening with a dozen people one hour later the line grew it started to wrap around the building with hundreds of people the line even reach south Airport Boulevard before the store even opened it was out of paper towels and toilet paper minutes after the doors opened rice was completely out one point things became tense in line as this man claims someone cut him store employees managed to calm down the situation to keep the line moving in a safe manner. My question is what was so dire to want to wait this long line. One shopper had a pretty good reason because ive got some people are flying off shelves as they can. The 2 main items i saw people exiting the Grocery Store with was water and disinfectant wipes you can see some shoppers were wearing mast, others wearing gloves. People obviously trying to take some type of precaution. It can be dangerous for elderly people and those with compromised immune systems to wait in these long lines, especially in close distance with other people if you absolutely have to go to the Grocery StoreHealth Officials say you should keep a 6 foot distance between you and other shoppers in line and if you have to go you might as well bring one of these sanitation wives that way you can wipe down the shopping cart and any other surfaces humay touch in South San FranciscoSarah Stinson kron 4 news. All right time now for weather check and certainly an active afternoon again here come those thunderstorms pop up the seam in the south a little that numerous lightning strikes so if you thought you heard the rumble of thunder youre probably did so that flash a lightning tune continuing to see some downpours there near saratoga further south right along a one a one headed toward gilroy and snow up in the mountain tops. So certainly very interesting afternoon once again and were not done just yet this very slow moving area of low pressure, the same one that brought rain over the weekend just a slow to head out of town so weve got another chance of a few more showers on wednesday to maybe not as active by wednesday afternoon still couple lingering showers more snow up in the Sierra Nevada behind that finally as we get into thursday, they were the Catcher First break in sometime maybe just a couple popup showers over the mountain tops and thats about it temperatures tomorrow, im going to be cool again 50s in San Francisco plan and couple of scattered showers 50s along the coastline as well about 54 degrees and burlingame 54 South San Franciscos all these temperatures still running on the chilly side scattered showers in the south as well 50s all around look at 58 degrees one of the warmer spots in livermore 55 and above 57 in hayward about 55 degrees in san leandro 55 also in berkeley 56 in hercules 55 scattered showers in the napa valley certainly a chance of a couple snowflakes over the mountain tops lot of 50s all around in fact looks like tomorrow another chance showers spring begins on thursday, were going to catch a little bit of a break in the Stormy Weather that the rain is going to hold off now until about late saturday night and into sunday by lawrence sports executives continue to cancel offenses. The pandemic intensifies and now one of golfs 4 major championships this year. Said to be held in San Francisco has been postponed the 2020 pga championship was supposed to be played here in midmay at harding park right near the zoo, not anymore has not been rescheduled yet. Its unclear if it will definitely remain in the city be moved elsewhere or honestly at this point will they play it at all nobody knows this is the second golf major to be postponed. The masters was put on hold last week and Major League Baseball is pushing opening day timid may they made that announcement today, baseball will not play any games for at least the next 2 months the move is directly tied to the governments recommendation to hold gatherings of more than 50 people for the next 2 months. The league originally delay to season until the end of march they were stopping spring training games and they were going to delay the regular season. 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Made it clear that we will continue to support our nonprofit organizations the nonprofit organizations. That serve our so that many of those services that are provided to our Homeless Population to our senior population into our youth can continue to receive support and were continuing to work with our philanthropic partners. On a particular fund that will provide to residents of San Francisco again those who are financially impacted. The loss of income due to the coronavirus. I want to once again encourage employers and employees who are impacted to go the website www died o e w d dot org slash covid 19 and also if their questions and you do not have access to. The internet you can always call 3, 1, 1, if you have any questions. We will continue to do all we can to support our business we know that this will have a tremendous impact on our economy here in San Francisco, but throughout the country and so what we want to at least 2 is everything we can now to help get people through this this challenge. Were also taking on additional steps to strengthen our capacity to to respond. In talking with a doctor grant cold facts too is currently at our Emergency Operations center is clear that we need more capacity. In our Health Care System to deal with the potential challenges, including hiring more nurses and healthcare workers. And so today i wave the provisions around hiring rules. So that we can hire qualified registered nurses on the spot. We know that this process typically unfortunately through our city bureaucracy can take up to 6 months. So instead of going to that normal process. We will act now and we will not waste time and we will get those qualified. Health care workers up and running as quickly as possible. Finally we received a number of questions regarding parking and cannabis. In terms of parking the sfmta will stop issuing tickets related to street sweeping and well waive tickets that were given out today. We understand for people who are quarantined it may be impossible for them to move their cars. However for those of you who can move your car is doing street cleaning we asked you do so it helps us to continue to keep the streets clean. As much as we possibly can your full cooperation would be appreciated at this time, but we wanted to be clear that we wont be issuing tickets. For st. Cleaning. In terms of the cannabis dispensaries the department of Public Health today clarified that sense cannabis has medical uses dispensaries will be allowed to operate as essential businesses just as pharmacies are allow to do. So i wan wanted to give you all those updates and at this time i want to ask. Im jeff tomlin from the sfmta to provide some overview and just some updates about whats happening with the sfmta i know people had a number of questions around park parking around tickets around towing. Around things related to muni and mister tomlin is here to provide you with an update. Good evening. My name is Jeffrey Tumlin director of transportation for San Francisco. As the mayor has already said this is an evolving situation for all of us and policies will continue to evolve along with advice from the Mayors Office and the department of Public Health for the latest information you can always go to our website at s f mta dot com. As mare already said effective midnight tonight, we will no longer be enforcing the rules for street sweeping. But she also said its important that our streets not be allowed to get filthy so if you can move your car for street sweeping please do so this will allow the street sweepers which are continuing to operate to be able to keep our streets clean. In addition citations that were issued today for street sweeping violations, those will be waived, but you will need to follow the waiver procedures on our website and as we announced yesterday, we are waiving all late fees and late penalties and deadlines for the duration the Health Emergency for the full array of parking a citation and that we have imposed over the last months. The other guidance. We issued yesterday still applies we will be enforcing rules related to Public Health safety and the accessibility of services so this means double parking in the bike lane, not can be sighted parking in the transit lane can be sighted similarly its very important for people who are being quarantined that they still be able to get their their Grocery Stores pharmacies and other services and so we will be continuing for the time being to enforce parking meters to make sure that parking availability is still there in our neighborhood commercial districts. On this plenty of their detail that is available at our web site and we first be happy to take questions later. I believe that im now turn the mike over to doctor naveen a po box from Public Health are back to thank you mister tumlin im also i just wanted to reiterate we will not be enforcing. The parking permits residential parking permits. So there will be no ticketing for residential parking permits at this time as well. Now we will have an update from a doctor Susan Philips with the department of Public Health. Thank you and good afternoon, im doctor says and Philip DeputyHealth Officer and director of disease prevention and control for the San Francisco department of Public Health. We all know the coronavirus emergency is continuing to change rapidly. I want to thank mayor breed for her leadership and supporting the unprecedented shelterinplace order that was issued by our Health Officer doctor tomas aragon and also issued by the Health Officers of the 5 other boats populist bay area counties we believe that this aggressive action is necessary to preserve health and will save lives. And we think the people of San Francisco for their cooperation which we can see just outside of city hall and on the streets of San Francisco right now. We know its not easy but we want to thank san franciscans for doing what they can to help preserve lives. Our stay at home orders very broad and we know that there will be a lot of questions that that come out of this. Because theyll be distancing steps that will be needed to prevent transmission of the virus, but we still need to allow for essential activities. We tried to explain to the best of our ability what that would entail and theres a very good frequently asked questions document available at sf of that everyone should take a look at but these are broad categories know the nuances as the mayor clarified one area that we want to talk about today is medic is cannabis so for years the San Francisco department of Public Health has recognized that medical cannabis is an essential medical service. We have been permitting cannabis a medical cannabis in San Francisco long before it was legal and the rest of california and since 2004 over 24,000 people in San Francisco have been issued medical marijuana cards. People rely on medical cannabis for chronic pain seizure disorders muscle spasms to put depression and multiple other disorders and conditions. So i want to clarify today is the mayor has said that cannabis dispensaries are allowed to remain open for pickup or delivery of these essential treatments people who require cannabis for medical purposes will be allowed and permitted to use Home Delivery services or pick up from dispensaries around San Francisco. Onsite consumption at the dispensaries will not be allowed. Our preference to maintain social distancing is that Delivery Service is utilized. Again i want to emphasize that we shouldnt lose sight of whats most important. The reason that were doing this today. Okay we have been bringing you a Live Press Conference from a San Francisco city leaders at the mayor talking about im announcing new efforts to hire medical personnel and not that the time is now also to prevent small and medium size business evictions on in the city to keep things going. Yeah that alluding to the fact that it normally takes 6 months to actually hire a nurse, but now its a nurse is qualified and registered. Theyre trying to do that on the spot parking if you cant move your car during a street sweeping time you dont have to they will not take it you for that they also will take it for the neighborhood parking permits and as far as a marijuana dispensaries ago a reversal from the mayor they closed today they had not been deemed essential. But the mayor said today that because a lot of people use that product for medical purposes they now like pharmacies will be deemed essential and they will be open you can go and pick up a lot a restaurant, you know you can go there and use being going pick up. Theyre suggesting know if you can to get the marijuana products delivered to your the best way to predict the future is to create it and change the world. Here at abbvie, were inventing medicines of the future to create tomorrows that will be healthier. And happier, while making medicines that help people right now. Because thats the present we wanted to live in. And thats the future we all want to see. Abbvie. Here. Now. This week, a Massachusetts Woman celebrated an important milestone while being quarantine in nursing home, but while she was isolated, she wasnt alone. Nicole burly shares how her family joined her in celebrating her big day. This mylan millions face says it all she did not get to blow out the candles nor open gifts but having her family outside her nursing home was the only like many Nursing Homes and hospitals Sterling Village has had to tighten their visitation policy so none of the residents become sick with coronavirus we cant go inside the sea or cause shes quarantined in but because it was such a special occasion and that should not be celebrated alone. The home and millys family found a workaround it was really nice that a witness to do shows using private the that was nicole burly reporting for us and as you might have seen millie sure made sure that everybody knew it was her special day grant. Yes, he was basking in had that sign that said it is my 100 birthday so happy birthday to millie want to leave you with a little bit of an upbeat story there and that wraps up kron 4 news at 5, but dont go anywhere ken and pam are just 6 feet away but 4 news at 6 starts right after the break. The visions around hiring room. So that we can hire qualified registered nurses on the spot. Now its 6 maryland and breed of San Francisco just wrapped up a News Conference where she laid out how city officials are. Helping residents in the city during this shelter in place order. Thanks for joining us tonight, im ken way and im pam moore during this coronavirus pandemic socialdistancing is very important in our daily lives and we are no different. We are practicing those guidelines here at kron 4 as well as the centers for Disease Control recommends we are spaced out to more than 6 feet apart to be on the minimum were doing this to protect ourselves so that. We can stay on the air and bring you the latest information you need during this health crisis. And just within the hour Sonoma County announcing that starting at midnight tonight. It is joining the shelterinplace order that order started today for